Belly fat unevenly disbursed, or bruised right abdomen. ?

I found this website in google when I was searching my symptoms and this girl sounds like she could be talking about me:


Uneven Pot-belly
by chloedae, Jul 11, 2010 03:02AM
Tags: belly, pot belly, right, lumps
Hi i'm a 22 yr female and I have an uneven potbelly. The right side of my pot belly seems larger than the left. I dont have an discomfort on the right and i cannot feel any lumps/mass in that area either. Also, i can "pinch" more fat on the right than the left..is it just uneven fat distribution or could be something else?

Please, please help me. Im very concerned. Thank you.




No one answered this post so I'm hoping I can get some help!


I'd like to know about this too, I'm having the same thing, its barley noticeable I can only see it from above, not from my side or front of my belly.  no pain, or discomfort, no lumps, or masses, just more fat, I understand we're not symmetrical but I guess I've never noticed it before, one thing Ive been considering is I scoop ice cream, and I hit my tummy on the part of the metal cooler every time I get some for someone, could this be swelling or bruising from that? I also wonder if my stomachs always been this way and I've just now noticed, and have been fixating on it? I'm kinda a hypochondriac. my mother is a LPN (and an avid worry wart) and briefly looked at it, she told me if there is no pain, or changes in size that she would not worry about it) but she also reminded me she isnt a doctor. I'd like to have someone input on it as well! thanks so much!

[MsLuLu23]

I'm not a biology student, but I think it is a mix of genetics and hormones. My mom and I both have pretty stubborn saddlebags, for instance. When I am on my rounder side, though my chest is bigger my body starts looking a lot more like hers.


Pregnancy hormones are the most obvious example of how they can change where someone deposits fat. During and after pregnancy most women find their bodies look very different than they did pre-pregnancy.

I think some people go on the extreme of the uneven scale just out of normal variations in the human population. If you think about "fat deposits" lying along the normal curve, where "normal" is even distribution about the body given age, gender, hormonal state, etc, then it might follow that some people on either tail of the curve will deposit it more unevenly in certain areas.
oh, and i do know that some drugs can cause fat to relocate- for instance, some HIV medications can cause lipodystrophy, where the subcutaneous fat basically disappears, and instead fat deposits end up inside the abdomen and at the back of the neck- which makes the patient look gaunt in the face & limbs, with a "buffalo hump" and a swollen belly.